Susan Olasky

Susan is WORLD’s story coach and has authored eight historical novels for children. Susan and her husband Marvin live in Austin, Texas. Follow Susan on Twitter @susanolasky.

Four new nonfiction books

Books
by Susan Olasky
Posted 8/30/18, 12:58 pm

Book Girl

Sarah Clarkson

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Aretha Franklin, ‘Queen of Soul,’ has died

by Susan Olasky
Posted 8/16/18, 12:33 pm

The “Queen of Soul,” Aretha Franklin, died Thursday from pancreatic cancer. She was 76.

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Novels and biography

Books
by Susan Olasky
Posted 7/05/18, 11:04 am

Clock Dance 

Anne Tyler

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Crime stories

Books | Thrillers from here and abroad

Susan Olasky | 6/14/18, 12:44 am

The Woman in the Window

A.J. Finn

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Pictures and poetry

Children's Books | Four recent picture books

Susan Olasky | 5/24/18, 12:14 pm

The Horse’s Haiku

Michael J. Rosen

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Books about the 1918 flu

Books

Susan Olasky | 5/10/18, 03:20 pm

Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It 

Gina Kolata

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Recent nonfiction books

Books

Susan Olasky | 3/29/18, 03:15 pm

iGen: Why today’s Super-Connected Kids are Growing up Less Rebellious, more tolerant, less happy—and completely unprepared for adulthood …

Jean M. Twenge

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Four recent novels

Books

Susan Olasky | 3/15/18, 11:21 am

Every Note Played 

Lisa Genova

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Ages and stages

Children's Books | Four recent picture books

Susan Olasky | 3/01/18, 04:00 pm

I’m a Duck 

Eve Bunting

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Off the pages, into the heart

Children’s Books of the Year | PICTURE BOOK OF THE YEAR: WORLD’s 2018 Children’s Books of the Year section begins with a psalm-inspired story of classmate reconciliation

Susan Olasky | 2/01/18, 03:46 pm

We publish in each issue one page of children’s book reviews, and we feature each year a special section spotlighting what our reviewers believe are the previous year’s most attention-worthy kids’ books in the fiction, nonfiction, and picture book categories. Of all the books published in 2017, our WORLD Picture Book of the Year is The Watcher (Eerdmans). Author Nikki Grimes and illustrator Bryan Collier developed it for an audience older—8 and up—than typical picture book users. It begins with the text of Psalm 121 laid out above a collage cityscape.

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